Re: Fixed length data types issue

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 15:08:18 -0400, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> 
> From time to time the idea of a logical vs physical mapping for columns 
> has been mentioned. Among other benefits, that might allow us to do some 
> rearrangement of physical ordering to reduce space wasted on alignment 
> in some cases. There might be a small addition on computation required, 
> but I suspect it would be lost in the noise, and swamped by any 
> increased efficiency we got from putting more tuples in a page.

I believe another counter argument raised, is that this would be a source
of a lot of bugs.